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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. _media_using_camera_sensor_drivers:
+
+Using camera sensor drivers
+===========================
+
+This section describes common practices for how the V4L2 sub-device interface is
+used to control the camera sensor drivers.
+
+You may also find :ref:`media_writing_camera_sensor_drivers` useful.
+
+Frame size
+----------
+
+There are two distinct ways to configure the frame size produced by camera
+sensors.
+
+Freely configurable camera sensor drivers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Freely configurable camera sensor drivers expose the device's internal
+processing pipeline as one or more sub-devices with different cropping and
+scaling configurations. The output size of the device is the result of a series
+of cropping and scaling operations from the device's pixel array's size.
+
+An example of such a driver is the CCS driver.
+
+Register list based drivers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Register list based drivers generally, instead of able to configure the device
+they control based on user requests, are limited to a number of preset
+configurations that combine a number of different parameters that on hardware
+level are independent. How a driver picks such configuration is based on the
+format set on a source pad at the end of the device's internal pipeline.
+
+Most sensor drivers are implemented this way.
+
+Frame interval configuration
+----------------------------
+
+There are two different methods for obtaining possibilities for different frame
+intervals as well as configuring the frame interval. Which one to implement
+depends on the type of the device.
+
+Raw camera sensors
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Instead of a high level parameter such as frame interval, the frame interval is
+a result of the configuration of a number of camera sensor implementation
+specific parameters. Luckily, these parameters tend to be the same for more or
+less all modern raw camera sensors.
+
+The frame interval is calculated using the following equation::
+
+ frame interval = (analogue crop width + horizontal blanking) *
+ (analogue crop height + vertical blanking) / pixel rate
+
+The formula is bus independent and is applicable for raw timing parameters on
+large variety of devices beyond camera sensors. Devices that have no analogue
+crop, use the full source image size, i.e. pixel array size.
+
+Horizontal and vertical blanking are specified by ``V4L2_CID_HBLANK`` and
+``V4L2_CID_VBLANK``, respectively. The unit of the ``V4L2_CID_HBLANK`` control
+is pixels and the unit of the ``V4L2_CID_VBLANK`` is lines. The pixel rate in
+the sensor's **pixel array** is specified by ``V4L2_CID_PIXEL_RATE`` in the same
+sub-device. The unit of that control is pixels per second.
+
+Register list based drivers need to implement read-only sub-device nodes for the
+purpose. Devices that are not register list based need these to configure the
+device's internal processing pipeline.
+
+The first entity in the linear pipeline is the pixel array. The pixel array may
+be followed by other entities that are there to allow configuring binning,
+skipping, scaling or digital crop, see :ref:`VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_SELECTION
+<VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_SELECTION>`.
+
+USB cameras etc. devices
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+USB video class hardware, as well as many cameras offering a similar higher
+level interface natively, generally use the concept of frame interval (or frame
+rate) on device level in firmware or hardware. This means lower level controls
+implemented by raw cameras may not be used on uAPI (or even kAPI) to control the
+frame interval on these devices.
+
+Rotation, orientation and flipping
+----------------------------------
+
+Some systems have the camera sensor mounted upside down compared to its natural
+mounting rotation. In such cases, drivers shall expose the information to
+userspace with the :ref:`V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION
+<v4l2-camera-sensor-rotation>` control.
+
+Sensor drivers shall also report the sensor's mounting orientation with the
+:ref:`V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ORIENTATION <v4l2-camera-sensor-orientation>`.
+
+Sensor drivers that have any vertical or horizontal flips embedded in the
+register programming sequences shall initialize the :ref:`V4L2_CID_HFLIP
+<v4l2-cid-hflip>` and :ref:`V4L2_CID_VFLIP <v4l2-cid-vflip>` controls with the
+values programmed by the register sequences. The default values of these
+controls shall be 0 (disabled). Especially these controls shall not be inverted,
+independently of the sensor's mounting rotation.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/index.rst
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@@ -32,11 +32,13 @@ For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of Linux.
:numbered:
aspeed-video
+ camera-sensor
ccs
cx2341x-uapi
dw100
imx-uapi
max2175
+ npcm-video
omap3isp-uapi
st-vgxy61
uvcvideo
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/npcm-video.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/npcm-video.rst
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+NPCM video driver
+=================
+
+This driver is used to control the Video Capture/Differentiation (VCD) engine
+and Encoding Compression Engine (ECE) present on Nuvoton NPCM SoCs. The VCD can
+capture a frame from digital video input and compare two frames in memory, and
+the ECE can compress the frame data into HEXTILE format.
+
+Driver-specific Controls
+------------------------
+
+V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The VCD engine supports two modes:
+
+- COMPLETE mode:
+
+ Capture the next complete frame into memory.
+
+- DIFF mode:
+
+ Compare the incoming frame with the frame stored in memory, and updates the
+ differentiated frame in memory.
+
+Application can use ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE`` control to set the VCD mode
+with different control values (enum v4l2_npcm_capture_mode):
+
+- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_COMPLETE``: will set VCD to COMPLETE mode.
+- ``V4L2_NPCM_CAPTURE_MODE_DIFF``: will set VCD to DIFF mode.
+
+V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If using V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEXTILE format, VCD will capture frame data and then ECE
+will compress the data into HEXTILE rectangles and store them in V4L2 video
+buffer with the layout defined in Remote Framebuffer Protocol:
+::
+
+ (RFC 6143, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6143.html#section-7.6.1)
+
+ +--------------+--------------+-------------------+
+ | No. of bytes | Type [Value] | Description |
+ +--------------+--------------+-------------------+
+ | 2 | U16 | x-position |
+ | 2 | U16 | y-position |
+ | 2 | U16 | width |
+ | 2 | U16 | height |
+ | 4 | S32 | encoding-type (5) |
+ +--------------+--------------+-------------------+
+ | HEXTILE rectangle data |
+ +-------------------------------------------------+
+
+Application can get the video buffer through VIDIOC_DQBUF, and followed by
+calling ``V4L2_CID_NPCM_RECT_COUNT`` control to get the number of HEXTILE
+rectangles in this buffer.
+
+References
+----------
+include/uapi/linux/npcm-video.h
+
+**Copyright** |copy| 2022 Nuvoton Technologies